Scott Nickell
@salvius23.bsky.social
Tech support, gamer, writer/poet, law school dropout. He/him. Opinions are not those of my employer(s), past, present, or future. They may not even be *mine*.
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There actually is some along the left side, but the angle of the photo makes the crenels run together and look like a solid wall.
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
There actually is some along the left side, but the angle of the photo makes the crenels run together and look like a solid wall.
It fills me with joy that when people started talking about "I love Chick-Fil-A sandwiches, but I don't go there because of the horrible people who run the company," virtually every other fast food place started adding pickles to their chicken sandwiches in an obvious attempt to get that business.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It fills me with joy that when people started talking about "I love Chick-Fil-A sandwiches, but I don't go there because of the horrible people who run the company," virtually every other fast food place started adding pickles to their chicken sandwiches in an obvious attempt to get that business.
This photo doesn't do a very good job of showing off how crenellous this house is (or isn't).
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This photo doesn't do a very good job of showing off how crenellous this house is (or isn't).
This is right out of Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism" essay.
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is right out of Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism" essay.
They will continue to support a sex predator as long as the sex predator keeps pissing off liberals.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
They will continue to support a sex predator as long as the sex predator keeps pissing off liberals.
I'm not even sure "moderate" is the right word anymore. This is the low-end, bare-minimum option.
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I'm not even sure "moderate" is the right word anymore. This is the low-end, bare-minimum option.
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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There are certain fights that you need to either never pick in the first place or be certain you're willing to see all the way through.
The shutdown was one of them.
The shutdown was one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
There are certain fights that you need to either never pick in the first place or be certain you're willing to see all the way through.
The shutdown was one of them.
The shutdown was one of them.
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
Or that they're afraid of being wished into the cornfield.
a young boy is sitting in front of a group of people .
Alt: Young Billy Mumy in the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life," in which he plays a 6-year-old child with godlike powers. A pair of adult women behind him are clapping nervously at whatever he's smiling at, because he has the power to do horrible things to them, including banishing them to "the cornfield," a fate which apparently no one ever returns from.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Or that they're afraid of being wished into the cornfield.
You know the HR rep calls him "Mr. Zoombie" through the whole meeting.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
You know the HR rep calls him "Mr. Zoombie" through the whole meeting.